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PA Man Wanted For Car Theft Caught After Pursuit In NJ: Police
A 31-year-old New Jersey man wanted out of Pennsylvania was arrested after he was found with a stolen car and then led officers on a foot pursuit over the weekend, police said. Robert Hollingsworth, who was charged in Easton, PA with car theft last year, became the center of an investigation in Fairfield (Essex County), NJ, on Saturday, March 30, when police were notified of a stolen green Kia Soul stolen out of Passaic three days prior, Fairfield police said in a release. Police found the Kia at a BP gas station on Route 46 east, parked, running, and unoccupied around 1 p.m., officers said…
Police & Fire
Philadelphia Man Charged In Deadly Shooting At Delco Mosque
Delaware County prosecutors say they caught the man who shot a 65-year-old to death outside an Islamic center in October. Herman Stigall is charged with other first-degree murder of Mohammad Rahman at Masjid Al-Madinah Mosque in Upper Darby, said District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer in a press conference Wednesday, Jan. 3. Investigators believe Stigall was hooded and masked while waiting near the Masjid parking lot around 8 p.m. on Oct. 29, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Daily Voice. Security footage showed him approach Rahman as the 65-year-old pulled …
Police & Fire
Attempted Murder Suspect Stole Car From PA Driveway, Troopers Say (
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A man accused of attempted murder in Delaware County stole a car out of a Berks County driveway early Tuesday morning, Jan. 2, state police say. Troopers found an abandoned GMC in Weisenberg Township, Lehigh County around 4:30 a.m., they wrote in a release. The last known driver of the car was 29-year-old Umar Kimel Presbery, who was wanted by Tinicum Township police for attempted homicide and assault, authorities said. An hour later and four miles away, a Greenwich Township resident reported that his Subaru was missing from his driveway, according to troopers. Inv…
Police & Fire
David Michael Cox Charged With Carjacking In Parkesburg: PD
A West Chester man is accused of hitting a driver in the head with a firearm before stealing their car over the holiday weekend, say Parkesburg police. David Michael Cox, 41, is charged with robbery, aggravated assault, and related counts, the department wrote in a release. Authorities said the theft happened at the 100 block of Main Street around 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 23. Investigators claimed Cox ditched the car in West Whiteland, where it was later recovered. A warrant for his arrest was issued Sunday, Dec. 24, and Cox was taken into custody on Tuesday, Dec. 26, acc…
Lifestyle
Car Stolen, Then Ditched In Northampton County
Authorities are looking for four men who stole a car and then abandoned it in Palmer Township. The car was picked up near the corner of Division Street and Milford Street on Dec. 13, the department wrote in a release. The four were seen "bailing" from the car before fleeing on foot toward Victoria Lane, authorities said. Residents of the neighborhood should stay vigilant and report any unusual sightings to Palmer police, they added. Tips can be submitted via Crimewatch.
Police & Fire
9 Escaped Inmates Recaptured After Riot At 'Secure' PA Facility (
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All nine juveniles that broke out of Abraxas Academy juvenile detention center have been recaptured, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Beohm said on Monday morning. The teens escaped the "secure youth treatment facility" Abraxas Academy located at 1000 Academy Drive, Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, on Sunday, Sept. 17 around 8 p.m., according to area police. Trooper Beohm said these boys were at the Academy as a holding facility not the long-term location of sentenced youth. The boys were between the ages of 14 and 17 years of age. Seven of them were from Harrisburg, one from Lehigh Co…
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Carjacking, Kidnapping, Rape: Multi-State Crime Spree Stretched Into PA, Feds Say
Four Delaware men are accused in a crime spree that stretched into Pennsylvania and allegedly included car theft, kidnapping, gunpoint robbery, and rape. Twenty-four-year-old Tonnaire McNair-Matthews, 23-year-old David Hinson, 21-year-old Michael Caldwell, and 20-year-old Mahkiya Powell were each named in a July 13 indictment unsealed in a US District Court in Delaware this week, said the US Attorney's Office. The spree, federal authorities say, took place on April 14 and began in Delaware. Investigators claim the four suspects were riding around in a stolen …
Police & Fire
Carjacker Tried Climbing Through Chesco Driver's Window: Police
A would-be car thief struggled to hijack several vehicles in Oxford Borough Saturday night, according to police. Warren Hatfield, 38, of Oxford, is charged with robbery of a motor vehicle and multiple related felonies, authorities said in a release. Borough police were called to the Oxhaven Apartments around 7:20 p.m. on July 29, where witnesses said they saw Hatfield open the door of a passing woman's vehicle. Hatfield allegedly "instructed her to drive away," which she refused and fled the car, police said. He tried to drive away himself but was unable to figure ou…
Police & Fire
Rental Car Heist At Philly Airport Caught On Video
Authorities are investigating "approximately" 25 well-organized thefts of rental cars from Philadelphia International Airport. The thieves, investigators say, sneak into the lot and steal "three or four" vehicles, driving single-file to the toll booth at the lot's exit. There, the lead driver forces the booth operator to open the gate at gunpoint and the crew flees, according to police. Authorities have released the footage from one such robbery that was caught on video. Video footage appears to show the suspects driving off with four stolen vehicles. PhiladelphiaPolice The armed su…
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Hollywoodesque Crime Spree Lands PA Woman Jail Time: DA
A 41-year-old woman has learned her fate after admitting to a crime spree that reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie. The Central Pennsylvanian who stole two cars, drove with a revoked license, threatened her friend, crashed a car into a barn, caused a fire, abandoned a dog, sent police on an over 100 mph chase, and faked a medical issue to attack police in an attempt to escape— has learned her fate, according to a release by the Cumberland County District Attnory Sean M. McCormack. Chontelle Melissa Shirk, pleaded guilty and her sentence was imposed on June 13, 2023, the DA said and c…
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Ex-Con Kidnapper Gets 43 Years, No Parole, For Rape, Arson, Assault Rampage Through NJ, NY, PA
UPDATE: An ex-con who kidnapped and raped his ex-girlfriend in Pennsylvania, then torched a used car dealership in Paterson and rammed a stolen SUV into police cars at both ends of the George Washington Bridge was sentenced to 43 years in federal prison. Luis Figueroa, 42, first took a plea deal from the government that called for him to serve 26 years in a federal penitentiary. Then he abruptly withdrew his plea, took his chances with a trial – and lost. Federal jurors in Newark convicted Figueroa in May 2022 of kidnapping, criminal sexual abuse, illegal gun possession and assaulting…
Police & Fire
Wanted Levittown Woman Crashes Into Cop Car During Pursuit: Police
A Bucks County woman is in custody after authorities say she led them on a chase and crashed a stolen car into a police vehicle in Lower Makefield. It started just before 10:30 a.m on Wednesday, township police wrote in a release. Officers patrolling near Big Oak and Oxford Valley roads spotted a car that was reported stolen, authorities said. They initiated a traffic stop but the driver fled, leading police on a "short pursuit," the release says. The car eventually pulled into a dead-end block of Cornerstone Drive before crashing into a police patrol vehicle, the department wro…
Police & Fire
Stolen Car Crashes On Twin Bridges After Chase Through Philly: Police
A street chase through Philadelphia ended when the suspects crashed their allegedly stolen car and fled on foot, according to the police. It started at 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15, when officers noticed a southbound Kia on Roosevelt Boulevard driving erratically and weaving through traffic, the department told Daily Voice. Authorities said they began a pursuit after learning the vehicle had been reported stolen. The chase came to a halt on the Twin Bridges in Fairmount Park when the Kia crashed into two other vehicles, police said. Officials said that three people hop…
Police & Fire
Missing Florida Lyft Driver With Philly Ties Has Died, Daughter Confirms
Gary Levin, the 74-year-old Philadelphia native and Lyft driver who went missing in Florida a week ago, has died, his daughter Linsday DiBetta has announced. Levin was last heard from on Monday, Jan. 30 while driving fares around the Palm Beach Gardens area, his daughter had previously said. Days later, police found the senior's car stolen in North Carolina, and then discovered human remains near his last known location in Florida, as Daily Voice reported. Authorities in Florida have not publicly identified those remains. But on Tuesday, Feb. 7, DiBetta said in a public Facebook post th…
Police & Fire
Stolen Vehicle Crashes During Reading Street Chase: Police
One man sits in a Berks County jail cell after authorities say he crashed a stolen vehicle into a family's car during a police chase in Reading. Officers were on patrol near 9th and Penn streets at about 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1 when they noticed a Volkswagen Jetta that was reported as stolen in Chester County, Reading police said in a statement. The driver of the Volkswagen fled before police could pull him over, traveling north up 9th Street before heading east on Washington Street, the department wrote. The chase came to an end when the driver rammed into an occupied car on…
Police & Fire
Life In Prison For PA Arsonist Who Killed Man Clinging To His Own Vehicle
A convicted arsonist and killer in Lancaster County will spend the rest of his days in prison for a crime spree that ended with a man's death three years ago, a judge has ruled. Javen T. Jackson, 24, was sentenced to life plus four-to-10 years at a hearing on Dec. 20, said county District Attorney Heather Adams in a statement. At his trial in October, prosecutors said Jackson set fire to a New Holland apartment building on Nov. 10, 2019. Jurors heard from building residents who described waking up to find their apartments filled with smoke and rushing to safety with their young …
Police & Fire
Teen Left To Die In Roadway After Car Thief Flips Vehicle In Philadelphia: Police
A teenager is dead and a suspect is on the run after a stolen car crashed on Roosevelt Boulevard in north Philadelphia, police tell Daily Voice. A 2021 Kia was headed north near the intersection with Rising Sun Avenue just before midnight on Monday, Dec. 12 when the driver ran a red light and rear-ended a Honda, the department said. The impact caused the driver to lose control, crossing over a grassy median and flipping the vehicle "several times," police said. WATCH: For 2nd time this year, the deadly victim of a hit&run on Roosevelt Blvd was a passenger in a speeding out of c…
Police & Fire
Man Stabbed After Confronting Car Thieves Outside Montgomery County Home, Police Say
A man was stabbed after confronting car thieves outside his home in Montgomery County, authorities said. Officers responding to the 200 block of Grove Avenue in Cheltenham found a man suffering from multiple stab wounds around 3 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, local police said. The unidentified victim was taken to a local hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition, authorities said. Witnesses apparently told police that the victim confronted a group of masked men who were breaking into his car in front of his home. "A struggle ensued and one of the males stabbed the victim m…
News
Man With Rifle Nabbed In NJ Crash While Fleeing In Stole Car From PA Burglary: Police
A central Pennsylvania man has been arrested in New Jersey after he was car crash in a stolen vehicle following a burglary of his neighbor's home, police say. Allen Vasquez of the 7800 block of Clearfield Street in Swatara Township, Pennsylvania, broke into his neighbor's home in the 7600 block of the same street around 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 13, police allege. Vasquez was spotted on a neighbor's security camera entering the home with a rifle as pictured. "Vasquez took personal property and keys to the victim's vehicle that was parked outside," police say. He was in a car in New Jer…
News
NJ Dad Who Ran After Stolen Car With Son Inside Recounts The Horror, Hopes Others Take Note
A Bergen County dad whose car was stolen with his 11-year-old son still in the back seat said he desperately chased the speeding vehicle on foot terrified by the thought that he'd never see his boy again. Then came a moment of what he suspects was divine intervention. Now Daniel Reiser hopes others can learn from his ordeal. The youngster was "wet and frozen" from a morning soccer game when they pulled into the parking lot of the Chase Bank on County Road near Central Avenue in Tenafly around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 2, Reiser said. "I went into the ATM vestibule just a few feet in…
Police & Fire
Range Rover Stolen From Suburban Philly Driveway May Be In NJ: Police
A car stolen from a driveway in the Philadelphia suburbs may have ended up in New Jersey, according to its tracking device. A Montgomery County homeowner pulled into her driveway near County Line Road and Huntingdon Pike around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, Lower Moreland police said. She told police she went inside her house and left her gray 2022 Range Rover running with the keys inside, and it was stolen about seven minutes later. She didn't notice it was stolen until around 10:30 p.m., police said. Neighborhood surveillance video shows the thief arriving in another vehicle befo…
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PA Child Molester Killed 2 People, Stabbed Nieces, Before Chase Ending In Bus Crash: Police
"Uncle stabbed us." That's what two young children told police at the scene of a fatal shooting on Wednesday, according to the criminal complaint. A central Pennsylvania man has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting and stabbing that occurred at a home prior to a chase, and that ended with a crash into a school bus in Londonderry Township, authorities say. Gregory Gerrod Greene Jr.Dauphin County district attorney's office Gregory Gerrod Greene Jr., 31, of no fixed address, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder followi…
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East Coast Luxury Car Theft Ring Smashed By Detectives From Small NJ Town
What at first seemed like a run-of-the-mill package theft led Palisades Park detectives to an organized theft ring that used bogus IDs to buy high-end luxury cars, authorities said. Jeon Kichul, a 43-year-old Korean national, was arrested last December after Detective David Chun identified him as the porch pirate who swiped a package containing a baseball glove from outside a resident’s home, Capt. Shawn Lee said. Kichul, who was also carrying bogus ID, was released pending further investigation, said Lee, the officer in charge of the department. Chun then learned that Jeon was "part of a …
Police & Fire
Maryland Man Arrested For Stealing Ambulance, Hitting Cops While Intoxicated: Police
A man was arrested after stealing a Baltimore County Fire Department ambulance and crashing into police while under the influence, according to officials. Steven David Gary, 55, allegedly stole the ambulance on Jan 6. in the area of the Emergency Department at Carroll Hospital, according to the Carrol County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff’s Office Deputies, along with Troopers from the Maryland State Police located the ambulance on Route 32 in the area of Knox Court but it continued South on Route 32, eventually striking a Maryland State Police vehicle. Gary then also struck a Carroll County She…
News
Seven Youths Nabbed In Series Of NJ Car Thefts, Multi-County Pursuit, Crash
A Clifton police officer dove into a moving car after the teenager who stole it bailed out during one in a series of incidents involving out-of-town car thieves -- one of whom is only 14. Six of them were captured following a pursuit and crash involving another stolen vehicle and a Clifton police car later that day, Lt. Robert Bracken said. Officers interrupted the theft of a 2017 Mazda on Chittendon Road around 3 a.m. Monday, Bracken said. The thief hopped out of the car while it was still moving, forcing an officer to dive in to keep it from damaging nearby property, he said. The teen a…
Police & Fire
Police Search For Suspect In Armed Robbery At Upper Darby Car Dealership
An armed robber who allegedly fled with a stolen car from a Delaware County auto dealership this week is being sought by police. The man arrived at the dealership around 2 p.m. Monday and fled in a 2010 White Chevy Impala, Upper Darby police said. The police did not say which dealership was robbed. Surveillance photos show tattoos on the alleged suspect's neck and left hand. Police say he should be considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with information is urged to contact Upper Darby police at socialmedia@udpd.org or 610-734-7693. All information will remain anonymous.
Police & Fire
Child Found Safe After Amber Alert Issued For Missing 6-Year-Old Girl In Philly: Police
A 6-year-old girl missing out of Philadelphia has been found safe, authorities said. Sahara Little was dropped off at the 35th District Headquarters unharmed on Wednesday morning, according to a statement released at 8:30 a.m. by Philadelphia police. AMBER ALERT UPDATE: Sahara Little was located and is safe. The AMBER Alert is canceled. Thank you for the shares. Posted by PA State Police on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 Pennsylvania State Police issued an Amber Alert at 6:10 a.m. Wednesday after the girl was abducted in a car parked outside Giovanni's Pizzeria on Greene Street around 9:3…
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100 MPH Central PA Police Pursuit Involved Stolen Cars, Abandoned Dog: Authorities
A central Pennsylvania woman stole two cars, drove with a revoked license, threatened her friend, crashed a car into a barn, caused a fire, abandoned a dog and sent police on an over 100 mph chasing, according to a release by Pennsylvania State police. Chontelle Melissa Shirk, 40, of Dauphin, was arrested following the incident which started in a Target Parking lot in South Middleton Township at approximately 2:34 p.m., according to the release by Pennsylvania state police. Shirk threatened the friend while the pair were in a Nissan Versa together before forcing her friend out of the vehi…
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NJ Car Thief Admits Selling Stolen Vehicles On Craigslist, Offerup
A Belleville man told a federal judge on Thursday that he advertised vehicles for sale on Craigslist and Offerup, then went out and stole them. Eric Morgan, 34, said he photographed particular vehicles and attached a GPS tracker to develop the owner’s “pattern-of-life,” Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. “The target vehicle was then listed for sale on an internet-based marketplace,” Honig said. “Potential purchasers of the target vehicles responded to listings and scheduled in-person meetings to purchase the vehicles. “Shortly before the scheduled meeting times, the targeted vehic…
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: NJ Boy, 14, Driving Stolen Car Shot Dead By PA Man
Two people have been charged in the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy at a New Jersey gas station over the weekend. Tamir Phillips, 22, of Bensalem, PA, and Chelsea Holman, 29, of Willingboro, NJ, were arrested in the death of Jesse Everett on Aug. 21, the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office announced Tuesday. Phillips was charged with first degree murder and weapons offenses while Holman was slapped with hindering apprehension and obstruction of justice. Everett, 14, was apparently driving a 2014 Honda Civic reported stolen by the owner that day, according to Burlington Coun…
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Wanted PA Robber Leads Virginia Police On Chase, Ending When He Shoots Himself
A Pennsylvania man who is wanted on a recent car theft and sexual assault led Virginia state police on a chase on Monday, according to Northern York County Regional Police. Dakota James Toms, 28, of Abbottstown, is wanted in Pennsylvania on various felony charges, as Daily Voice previously reported. Toms led police in Virginia on a chase in Salem, VA ending around 3:15 p.m. At the end of the pursuit Toms shot himself. It is not known at this time if he will survive his self-inflicted gun shot wound. No further details have been released by the Virginia State Polic…
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